1978 In Science

Computer science

• February 16 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
• Physics - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
• Chemistry - Peter D. Mitchell
• Medicine - Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
• Turing Award - Robert Floyd

Births

Deaths

• January 14 - Kurt Gdel (b. 1906), American mathematician.
• March 31 - Charles Best (b. 1899), medical scientist
• September 15 - Willy Messerschmitt (b. 1898), German aircraft engineer.
• November 15 - Margaret Mead (b. 1901), cultural anthropologist.

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